London's dreaded visitation: the social geography of the Great Plague in 1665

the new Oxford historians of the 1840s and 1850s. Sudhoff's characterization of his own place as a (or the) medical historian bears comparison with that of Treitschke, Diels, or Wilamowitz, and with the aims (and limitations) of Wilhelmian scholarship in general. Without this wider intellectual context one cannot see properly the development of medical history as a specific historical discipline, and a finer understanding of the development of medicine than is shown here is necessary to explain the transition from Hippocrates the physician to Hippocrates the philological text. This volume marks a useful beginning by setting out some essential biographical and bibliographical data, but there still remains much to do.